Posted By Ali on March 3rd, 2010
Being a diehard porschefile, I’ve always questioned if the 996 or 997 could really be called a true 911. By now all you 996/997 owners have let out a big grown, but don’t judge this post as a bash. Being a previous owner of the 996 myself, I have to admit my experience wasn’t the greatest. It could be the model year (2001), but things like the interior falling apart, front end wander at high speed, and many other problems really killed the experience. On the pro side, the car had power. But is power everything? [Read More...]
Tags: porsche 911, porsche 993, porsche 996, porsche 997, porsche carrera
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Posted By Ali on March 1st, 2010
As I’m sure most would agree, when the announcement was made about a “Apple Tablet” coming out the first thought was, why? Even after watching the keynote presentation, I still wondered if this product was actually needed or was it another nicely packaged Apple product that looked more pretty than functional. [Read More...]
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Posted By Ali on February 26th, 2010
First let me say I’m pretty proud that I actually committed to reading each book in my collection and not doom them to a life of dust collection. My first choice: “The Naked Entrepreneur“, written by Troy Hazard and Maria Elita. Being an entrepreneur myself, I love reading about experiences that others go through when starting a business, running a business, or just running themselves in general. It makes me feel that I’m not alone in the world. The focus of this book is to look into yourself and to be more real. [Read More...]
Tags: Entrepreneur Books, Maria Elita, The Naked Entrepreneur, Troy Hazard
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Posted By Ali on February 12th, 2010
This past snow storm in Maryland kept me caged up in the house and when you have time on your hands, the wheels of thought start to turn. My home office is in our basement/dungeon and in it, I have a nice set of bookshelves that not only house books, but other little odds and ends. Sitting back one crisp cold snowy morning in my office chair, I gazed over at this fairly large collection of unread books that seemed to occupy most of the real estate on both shelves. Surprised at this enormous collection that obviously was left to collect dust, I stirred up the motivation to see what my purchase whims left me with. Looking over titles such as: “Idiots Guide To Creative Writing” to “The Answer” and best of all “10 Hour Work Week”, I wonder if I actually read any of these and if I did, have I learned anything. [Read More...]
Tags: book review challenge, one book a week
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Posted By Ali on February 4th, 2010
Life lessons are an invaluable emotional tool that can set you up on a path of being successful, only if you stop to notice them. So how do you pick up on the lesson itself when sometimes you are too busy to notice it? Even worst, you are too proud to acknowledge it. For someone like me who is still an adolescent not only in heart, but also mind, my barrier has been my pride. In my eagerness to succeed at a very young age, I sometimes forget the meaning of my actions and the consequences of those actions. [Read More...]
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Posted By Ali on November 16th, 2009
Source: AFCAssetManagement.com
Market timing is not only possible, it is crucial!
Throughout my career, I have heard that it is impossible to time the market. Actually market timing is not only possible, it is crucial! The old rationale behind the impossibility of market timing was often presented with two very impressive sounding notions that convince many of their validity – “Efficient Markets Theory” and “Random Walk Theory”. Perhaps it is the fact that I am a practitioner and not a professional scholar that I can empathize with the difficulty in reading about financial theories, so let us get down to brass tacks [Read More...]
Tags: Asset Management, Asset Manager, Investment Manager, Registered Investment
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Posted By Ali on September 25th, 2009
Gaithersburg, MD September 25, 2009 – On September 22, 2009, Green-Racer.com officially went live on the web. As an alternative fuel performance portal, Green-Racer.com is striving to become the top information source for performance car enthusiasts looking to learn more about alternative fuels. With oil supply becoming a big issue and environmental concerns higher then ever, new government policies are forcing automotive manufactures to shift more into alternative fuels and increasing MPG (miles per gallon) with every new vehicle produced to lower our dependence on oil and help save the environment. [Read More...]
Tags: Alternative Fuel, alternative fuel in motorsports, Audi Diesel, green fuel, green motorsports, Green Performance, green racing, Hybrid performance, KERS formula 1
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Posted By Ali on August 19th, 2009
Press Release From Porsche:
Delivering even more engine power, lower weight and shorter transmission ratios, as well as upgraded body and suspension components than all previous GT3s, the new Porsche 911 GT3 RS sets the foundation for homologating the race version of the 911 GT3 and will be introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show September 17-27, 2009. [Read More...]
Tags: 2010 porsche gt3rs, porsche 911 gt3 rs
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Posted By Ali on July 27th, 2009
We’ve all seen the insanity of Ken Block’s YouTube videos where he’s blasting his car sideways through an airfield obstacle course coming to near collisions with random objects. Most can’t believe what they are seeing is real. The truth is even with great movie editing; Ken Block has amazing car control skills.
As a road racer, my experience with car control has been on wet skid pads and scary situations on track, which usually ends with a mild heart attack. “Happens to everyone”, I’m told, “that’s how you learn”, but that didn’t seem right. How do you learn to fix a problem that isn’t experienced often? Being obsessed with perfecting my own driving ability, I reached out to seasoned race veterans and other weekend track warriors for the answer to my car control problem. [Read More...]
Tags: Car Control, Rally School, Team Oneil, Team Oneil Rally School, Team O’Neil, Team O’Neil Rally School
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